From the local businesses who are able to stay open offering us groceries and pick up meals, to the front line workers at our local clinics and hospitals. We think it would be a great idea to thank those in our community and recognize those people for all they do. If you would like to thank someone who has shown kindness to others, or give a shout out to your local grocery store, restaurant, retail or health care workers serving the Queen Anne and Magnolia area, we are offering 1/8 page size ads for only $25 (black and white) every week in the newspaper. The ads will all appear in a special THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY page.
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Burgess shares ideas on how to solve or improve homelessness, policing in city
By Jessica Keller QA&Mag News editor
While he did not provide any definite solutions, Queen Anne resident and former City Council member and interim Seattle mayor Tim Burgess shared his insight on how to improve two hot button issues in Seattle, homelessness and policing, in a community presentation March 10.
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sues impacting the neighborhood. Burgess said both homelessness and policing are both complex and difficult problems that must be addressed if Seattle residents are going to have a kind of city they want.
He said, at last count, there are an estimated 3,738 unsheltered people in Seattle.
“That’s almost half of the city’s total homeless population,”
Burgess said, adding King County statistics indicate the vast majority of them are living with addiction or mental health problems.
In the photo from December 2020, tents for unsheltered people line a street in Uptown. Queen Anne resident and former City Councilmember Tim Burgess said in a presentation last week, to improve the homeless situation in Seattle, mental health and drug addiction treatment services should be provided to the chronically unsheltered, while more housing opportunities are offered. SEE BURGESS, PAGE 5
King County Council to pass sixth COVID supplemental budget
By Jessica Keller QA&Mag News editor
In its continued response to providing relief for the coronavirus pandemic, the King County Council is gearing up to pass another supplemental budget.
Councilmember Jeanne KohlWelles, as chair of the county’s budget committee, said the council will likely approve its sixth supplemental budget for COVID relief March 23 based on the $92.3 million package proposal
issued by Executive Dow Constantine. Kohl-Welles said these funds are from existing sources and do not include new money — revenue coming to King County from the American Rescue Act will be addressed in another supplemental budget that will come on the heels of COVID 6 supplemental budget.
The funding package includes:
• $45.2 million for rental assistance through the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, a supplement to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020
• $29 million for public health response and county operations funded by re-appropriating unspent corona-
virus relief funds
• $11.2 million for vaccination efforts for 60 days from state grants
• $5 million to establish a revolving fund for upfront payment for grants to community-based organizations that cannot wait for reimbursement
• $1.9 million to extend JustCARE and Co-LEAD programs through March For COVID-6, the Department
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WFTE provides refund for low and middleincome residents
By Ruairi Vaughan Contributing writer
The Washington State Senate’s Committee on Human Services, Reentry, and Rehabilitation is due to vote on a bill this week that would significantly expand the state’s Working Families Tax Exemption program.
The WFTE program was first passed by the State Legislature in 2008. It was based on the earned income tax credit, a federal program that pays a portion of an individual’s income tax back to them, depending on their marital status, number of children and income.
Like the earned income tax credit, the WFTE provides for a tax refund for low- and middle-income individuals and households; although, because Washington has no state income tax, this program applies to sales and use taxes. To qualify for the WFTE, an individual must have received an earned income tax credit on their federal taxes; the WFTE is based on the size of that rebate.
The bill currently under consideration by the Senate, HB 1297, was introduced in the State House of Representatives in midJanuary by Rep. My-Linh Thai
The bill would decouple the state program from the EITC, meaning that individuals would not need to be granted a federal tax credit before applying for the exemption to their state taxes.
HB 1297 would also tweak the income brackets the program operates with, slightly reducing the size of remittances for upperincome households.
The bill’s most important consequence would be the expansion of the program to individuals with an individual taxpayer identification number.
ITINs are issued by the Internal Revenue Service to individuals who want to pay taxes but are ineligible for a Social Security number — most often refugees or undocumented immigrants. Individuals who pay taxes with ITINs are ineligible for almost all forms of governmental assistance even though they are often in the lowest income groups.
HB 1297 has been praised from both sides of the political spectrum. During a March 9 debate on the floor of the House, Rep. Noel Frame (D-Seattle) lauded the bill as a way to re-align Washington’s regressive taxation system, which she described as “out of line with our values.”
Frame argued that the WFTE reform would “build a ladder to the middle class.”
On the other side of the aisle, co-sponsor Rep. Drew Spokesbary (R-Auburn) pointed out that Republicans have long been arguing for reducing the tax burden on Washingtonians.
Rep. J.T. Wilcox (R-Yelm), the House minority leader, said that passage of the bill would be “a victory for compassion, people who struggle and common sense.”
The most compelling voice in favor of HB 1297 was that of original sponsor Thai. Thai, whose family fled Communist Vietnam in the 1980s, described through tears how her parents had gone from being high-earning professionals in their home country to low-wage workers, who still “diligently paid their taxes every year long before [they] became naturalized citizens.”
She concluded her remarks with a reminder of how the expanded tax exemption would improve people’s lives.
“The Working Families Tax Exemption is our promise to people like my parents that, if they work hard, they can achieve their dreams, build better lives for their children, and their community will rise up to support them,” she said.
The House passed HB 1297 overwhelmingly, 94-2, and moved the legislation on to the Senate. It is due to be voted on by the Committee on Human Services, Reentry, and Rehabilitation on Thursday afternoon. If approved, it will need to be passed through the Senate Rules Committee and voted for on the floor of the Senate before being put on Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk to be signed into law.
The Washington state legislative session is due to end on April 25.
Kinnear Park Off-Leash Area closes through mid-April for improvements
Seattle Parks and Recreation has closed the Kinnear Park Off-Leash Area in Queen Anne through mid-April to make improvements.
According to a news release, the Seattle Conservation Corps will be replacing decaying wood chips with a gravel surfacing as part of the maintenance project. Additionally, the big leaf maple in the center of the park will be pruned.
Kinnear OLA is situated on the lower hillside of Kinnear Park, 899 Olympic Place. The nearest OLA’s are Denny Park, 100 Dexter Ave. N; Regrade Park,
2251 Third Ave.; and Magnolia Manor, 3500 28th Ave. W.
Go to http://www.seattle.gov/parks/find/dog-offleash-areas for other off-leash area opportunities.
The project is funded through Seattle Park District Maintaining Parks and Facilities funding initiatives, which provided $120,000 in 2021 to improve dog off-leash areas throughout Seattle.
For more information, ,go to https://www.seattle. gov/parks/about-us/current-projects/dog-off-leashareas.
Parks and Recreation seeks input on South Lake Union Community Center
Seattle Parks and Recreation is seeking input from the community on planning for a new community center in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Residents are invited to visit the online open house through March 31 at slucc.infocommunity.org to learn more about the project and provide feedback on the design concepts for the new South Lake Union Community Center.
According to a news release, the center, which will be at the corner of Mercer Street and Dexter Avenue, will be a private-public partnership operated by SPR but located on the ground floor of a private development project. The new center will be a space for everyone and visible from the street with easy access for pedestrians, cyclists and people traveling by mass transit.
SPR and the design team from NBBJ created the layout with input gathered from the first online open house held earlier this year.
Key features of the center include a full-size basketball court, fitness area/multi-purpose room and childcare.
The community will be asked to share additional recreation priorities to help the design team design the look and feel of the spaces within the community center.
For more information please visit www.seattle. gov/parks/about-us/current-projects/south-lakeunion-community-center, or contact David Graves, david.graves@seattle.gov or 206-684-7048.
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Older Seattle residents urged to sign up for vaccination appointments
Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan urged all Phase 1A and Phase 1B, Tier 1 eligible members of the public to sign up for the City’s vaccination notification list last week.
Once eligible members of the public sign up for the city’s notification list, they will receive an email notification when vaccination appointments become available at any of the city’s three fixed sites in Rainier Beach, West Seattle and the Lumen Field Event Center. The notification list is available at https://www.seattle.gov/mayor/covid-19/ vaccinations, and residents can also contact the Customer Service Bureau at 206-684-2489 between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday for assistance completing the sign-up form.
In particular, Durkan urges members of the public who are 65 or older and have not yet been vaccinated to sign up for the notification list. According to data from Public Health – Seattle & King County, a significant percentage of older adults in the Seattle area have not yet received their first dose of the vaccine.
“We all have a role to play in defeating this pandemic,” Durkan said. “Please, get vaccinated as soon as you’re eligible. If you’re not yet eligible, you can help someone in your community get an appointment through our notification list. I know everyone is fatigued, and we all want to pandemic to be over. But hope is on the horizon, and now is not the time to let up on our efforts.”
For more information, including the notification list, visit the city’s vaccination website at www.seattle.gov/vaccine. The site contains vaccination information in seven languages, and in-language assistance is also available over the phone. Even as more residents get vaccinated, city officials recommend public health measures like social distancing, wearing a mask and washing hands. Residents are urged to follow all public health guidance and visit the Public Health – Seattle & King County website, https:// kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/vaccine.aspx, for more information.
Sound Transit to offer free Link light rail service for vaccination appointments
Sound Transit also announced that it is offering free
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of Community and Human Services will likely follow the process used before when they distributed CARES funds to determine eligibility and who can receive funding assistance.
“There’s way more demand still, obviously, than what we have resources for,” she said.
Kohl-Welles said the rental assistance will be distributed through a tenant lottery, despite the controversy that generated last time around. When a tenant lottery system was first announced, people were concerned it could reinforce racial disparities, favoring white households. Kohl-Welles said, however, DCHS determined that was not the case — that about 60 percent of the households served through the tenant lottery were non-Caucasian.
“The bottom line is they believe that this actually works out the best way to do it,” she said.
Another critical feature of this supplemental budget is the $5 million revolving fund to provide up-front investments to community-based organizations in ad-
Link light rail service to passengers traveling to or from appointments at vaccination sites along Link routes, including newly opened sites at Lumen Field and Rainier Beach, as well as local pharmacies and medical facilities.
The free round-trip will be available throughout the day of a vaccination for passengers who show proof of the appointment if requested. Free service will also be available to vaccination site volunteers who provide documentation they are working a shift that day, such as an official email verifying their shift.
The Lumen Field mass vaccination site, the largest of its kind in the nation, is a short walk from the Link Stadium and International District/Chinatown stations. The Rainier Beach Community Vaccination Hub is within a mile of the Rainier Beach Link station.
All Sound Transit passengers must wear face coverings consistent with public health directives. Riders should also follow social distancing and other critical health guidelines to protect the community.
For trip-planning assistance or other questions, contact Customer Service at 888-889-6368, TTY Relay 711, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Washington DOH adopting CDC rules for post-vaccine activity
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is adopting the guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding post-vaccine
vance of federal reimbursements.
Kohl-Welles said the revolving fund was necessary to allow money to go quickly into the community for organizations who need it most instead of making them wait for the federal government to reimburse those funds.
She said this revolving fund is extremely critical for many smaller-community based organizations who needed funding faster than they were able to receive reimbursement.
She said, because of government requirements for grants and loans, it was difficult for nonprofit agencies and organizations, especially those helping BIPOC communities, to receive money from the government as soon as they needed it. She said one woman put up her house as collateral to receive money her communitiy organization needed upfront to continue providing services, primarily for food and technology access. She was still waiting for her money to arrive from the federal government at the end of last year.
“That should not happen, really,” Kohl-Welles said.
Through the revolving grant fund, money will come out of the general fund and will be reimbursed through money distributed through the recently passed American Rescue Act.
Kohl-Welles said the county is fast tracking the approval of the COVID 6 supplemental budget for two reasons. One is because of the urgency to get the funds out to communities. The second is because Constantine is likely to submit the COVID 7 supplemental budget, with first round of ARA funds, for consideration shortly.
“It may be transmitted before we have even approved COVID 6,” Kohl-Welles said.
Last week, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. According to a press release from Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office, Washington will receive more than $6.7 billion from the legislation, with more than $4.2 billion going to the state government.
The U.S. Treasury Department will release the funds in two disbursements: the first 50 percent within 60 days of the legislation’s
behavior.
If someone has been fully vaccinated, they can:
• Gather indoors with fully vaccinated people in private residences without wearing a mask and,
• Gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household in private residences (for example, visiting with relatives who all live together) without masks, unless any of those people or anyone they live with has an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
The CDC states that vaccinated people should continue to wear masks when they’re in public, avoid crowds and take other precautions when gathering with unvaccinated people who are at high risk of serious illness from COVID-19.
Currently, everyone in 1A tiers 1 and 2 and 1B tier 1 are eligible to receive a vaccination. They include:
• High-risk health care workers in health care settings
• High-risk first responders
• Long-term care facility residents
• All other workers at risk in health care settings
• All people 65 years or older
• All people 50 years or older in multigenerational households (home where individuals from two or more generations reside, such as an elder and a grandchild)
• Educators and staff for pre-K through 12th grade
• Child care providers
It is estimated that residents in Tier 2 1B will become eligible this week. They include:
• High-risk critical workers who work in certain congregate settings: agriculture; fishing vessel crews; food processing; grocery stores; corrections; prisons, jails or detention centers; public transit; remaining first responders.
• People 16 years or older who are pregnant or have a disability that puts them at high risk for severe COVID-19 illness.
To assess eligibility to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, go to the recently updated DOH Phase Finder tool, https:// form.findyourphasewa.org/210118771253954?utm_ medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.
Go to https://www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/ Immunization/VaccineLocations? to see a list of vaccine locations.
passing and the second no earlier than a year after the first payment.
Kohl-Welles said the COVID 7 supplemental budget is expected to be much larger than COVID-6.
“It’s actually pretty encouraging,” she said.
In 2020, the county received $262 million in relief funds, and King County Metro transit received about the same.
“So what we’re looking at this year is a lot more,” Kohl-Welles said. “This is really good news.”
A positive aspect of the American Rescue Act is funding can go directly to local and state governments, Kohl-Welles said, and King County stands to get approximately $400 million directly.
“That’s a sizable increase, plus everything is so much more flexible,” she said.
Unlike the CARES Act, which set a deadline for spending the funds, the ARP Act also gives local governments more time to distribute money.
It can also be used to backfill revenue lost or redirected from departments, Kohl-Welles said.
The county budget office is
already working on a COVID-7 budget, Kohl-Welles anticipates the council will pass seven or more supplemental COVID budgets this year.
She said, regardless, the King County Council will follow its priorities members established for dedicating CARES Act funds when determining how best to spend future ARA money. Those priorities were public health response; food stainability; housing stability; economic recovery; and mental health/behavioral health programs and services.
Kohl-Welles said more priorities have been added this year: relief for child care services, funds for job development and access to justice, which includes making sure the courts can function efficiently and at increased levels.
Again, Kohl-Welles said the County Council is not interested in making the process of distribution or eligibility more difficult, nor does it plan on changing the types of operations or organizations to benefit.
“We are just interested to getting the money out as fast as we can,” Kohl-Welles said.
Why do we get goosebumps?
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If you’ve ever been outside on a cold day, you may have noticed how your arm hairs stood up and you felt some goosebumps. Humans get goosebumps for different reasons and one of those reasons has to do with temperature.
My friend Ryan Driskell, an assistant professor at Washington State University, is really curious about the innerworkings of skin.
Driskell said that all of the hair on your arms grows out of little hair follicles in your skin. At the bottom of the follicle is a little hair factory that makes your hair. It’s also attached to a tiny, little smooth muscle called an arrector pili.
When we get cold, sometimes that little muscle contracts, or pulls on the hair follicle, to make the hair on your arms stand up.
“But it’s not just standing up straight,” Driskell said. “A lot of the time the hair is set to an angle.”
Though the hairs might be small, together they are able to create a kind of micro-environment for your body.
The hairs that are tilted at an angle help trap the air close to the body, which can help you to warm up, Driskell said.
That’s just one of the reasons we get goosebumps. Perhaps you’ve experienced goosebumps in other situations. If you are like me, maybe your hair stands on its end when you sense some kind of danger.
Maybe you’ve seen a cat puff up really big when it walked past a dog. This helped the cat look bigger and stronger than if it was just showing off its normal hair. Cats have a lot more hair follicles than humans. That also means they have a lot more hair that can stand up on end.
While humans might not be as hairy as a cats or a dogs, they do sometimes respond in a similar way when they sense a threat. Animals have a fight or flight response, which means they can run away or face their fears head on.
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“The tent encampments that we see in our public spaces have essentially become permanent because the city government has no specific plan to help the people in those encampments or to make certain that our parks and public spaces remain open and available to everyone,” Burgess said. “This isn’t good for the people living in the encampments, and it’s not good for everyone else, either.”
He said the city should adopt a comprehensive plan that focuses on identifying unsheltered residents’ medical and health needs and providing treatment for them.
To do this effectively, however, the city needs more housing options, from emergency shelters to permanent supportive housing and everything in between. He said the housing and medical services need to be offered simultaneously, and a fully integrated and coordinated plan developed for each of the chronically people so the best interventions, strategies and programs can be identified and resources devoted there.
He said once these services and interventions are made available, then officials need to make sure parks and public spaces are clean and open for everyone and that encampments cannot return.
“Now, a word of caution here: There is no quick fix to the problem of chronic homelessness,” he
said, adding these individuals have often been homeless for multiple years or multiple times throughout their lives, and they have experienced significant trauma. “It will take time, and it will take the type of individual care and treatment that they deserve to receive.”
Burgess said, because no other levels of government are adequately funding these services, it is up to the city to do so because it is very expensive to continue down the current path.
“We will never clear our parks and public spaces of encampments until we have low-barrier, rapid access, retention- focused treatment services that can be offered and utilized immediately,” Burgess said.
He said the city’s economic recovery, especially in downtown and neighborhood business districts, will be hampered as the pandemic subsides without action to address these problems.
“The people living unsheltered deserve this kind of dignified, comprehensive services to help them,” Burgess said.
For policing, Burgess states that the people should develop proactive steps that will build trust and confidence in law enforcement and allow people to view officers as partners in preventing crime and keeping communities safe.
“That’s a common-shared value that we all have: Everyone in our city, in every neighborhood, wants to be safe where they work, where
man ancestors were much more hairy than humans are today. Goosebumps may be a kind of leftover reflex from the days when your more hairy ancestors were experiencing that kind of fight or flight response. Driskell also told me you are actually born with all the arrector pilis and hair follicles you will ever have. When you get a scar, the hair and erector pili don’t grow back.
In the Driskell Lab, https:// skinregeneration.org/, scientists are working to find out how to regenerate the damaged arrector
they live, where they play and where they study,” Burgess said. He recommends the city raise the standards for hiring new officers, especially as it pertains to age and education requirements.
Science shows that the young human brain isn’t capable of “truly independent and objective decision making until the age of 25,” Burgess said, and recommends the entry age for officers should be raised from 21 to at least 24 or 25.
He also suggests raising the standard for education, requiring police officers to have some sort of college education and recommends offering tuition assistance or other incentives for new and current officers.
He said, while studies have not been conducted extensively, those that have been done indicate that officers with a college education use force less often than noncollege-educated peers and are capable of interacting with a broad spectrum of the population and engaging in problem solving across cultural differences and divides.
Burgess also suggests raising the promotion standards; blocking officers with a history of misconduct from advancing; and have “better, more repetitive training,” especially in crisis training and de-escalation skills.
Burgess said the police department should also have higher standards of accountability.
He said to improve account-
pilis and hair follicles so that the body can fully heal itself — including getting back to making goosebumps.
While goosebumps are something almost everyone feels at some point, we may experience them at different times and for different reasons.
Maybe one day you can do some research to help us discover more about the biology and psychology that’s going on behind our goosebumps.
Sincerely, Dr. Universe
ability, a statewide use-of-force policy needs to be created, as well as a statewide standard for how discipline will be carried out and how it will be investigated.
He also said the state should abolish the practice of private arbitration for police officers to appeal discipline once it is imposed. Currently, officers can have an outside arbitrator privately review disciplinary measures and alter and sometimes reverse them.
Burgess speculates the state Legislature is unlikely to pass any laws abolishing private arbitration because other labor unions will view it as a threat to their appeals practices.
Lastly, Burgess said law enforcement officers need to pay more attention to the science of crime and focus their efforts on the people causing the most harm. He also suggests officers partner with “natural guardians” — the people who live and work in neighborhoods that have been targeted by crime — to come up with effective strategies to deter and catch criminals.
“Following the science of policing is very hard work. It requires diligence, it requires care and it requires key sophisticated partnerships with the natural guardians who live in our community,” he said.
To listen to the entire presentation, which includes a question and answer session, go to https:// youtu.be/J6iTtCImmrk.
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vided in the Note or other instrument secured, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on April 16, 2021. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by April 5, 2021, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before April 5, 2021 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustees’ fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the April 5, 2021 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the current Beneficiary, Towd Point Mortgage Trust 2017-1, U.S. Bank National Association as Indenture Trustee or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): ADDRESS FRANK W WEST JR 15518 INTERLAKE AVE N, SHORELINE, WA 98133 PATRICIA LEE WEST 15518 INTERLAKE AVE N, SHORELINE, WA 98133 by both first class and certified mail on November 4, 2020, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place November 4, 2020 on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustees’ Sale. X. Notice to Occupants or Tenants.
The purchaser at the Trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenantoccupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. Notice to Borrower(s) who received a letter under RCW 61.24.031: THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you might eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: (877) 894-4663 or (800) 606-4819 Website: www.wshfc.org The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: (800) 569-4287 Website: www.hud.gov The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: (800) 606-4819 Website: www. homeownership.wa.gov Dated: December 9, 2020 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as Duly Appointed Successor Trustee By: Alan Burton, Vice President MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps 500 Union Street, Suite 620 Seattle, WA 98101 Toll Free Number: (844) 367-8456 TDD: (800) 833-6388 For Reinstatement/Pay Off Quotes, contact MTC Financial Inc. DBA Trustee CorpsOrder Number 73418, Pub Dates: 03/17/2021, 04/07/2021, QUEEN ANNE & MAGNOLIA NEWS
TS No: WA20-10402 Order No: 1678357WAD NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF COMMERCIAL LOAN(S) PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. Grantor: Sound Housing LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company Current beneficiary of the deed of trust: HMC Assets LLC solely in its capacity as Separate Trustee of Civic Holdings III Trust Current trustee of the
deed of trust: Commercial Default Services of Washington, LLC Current mortgage servicer of the deed of trust: Fay Servicing, LLC Reference number of the deed of trust: 20180716001442 Parcel number(s): 408380-3090-00 I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on 26th day of March, 2021, at 10:00 AM at the 4th Avenue entrance of the King County Administration Building, located one block east of the courthouse, 500 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of King, State of Washington, to-wit: Lot 5 and portion of Lot 6, Block 20, Lake Union Second Addition to the City of Seattle, according to the Plat thereof recorded in Volume 3 of Plats, Page 86, Records of King County, Washington: Situate in the City of Seattle, County of King, State of Washington. Commonly known as: 1619 N. 46th Street, Seattle, WA 98103 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 7/12/2018, recorded 7/16/2018, under Auditor’s File No. 20180716001442, records of King County, Washington, from Sound Housing LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company, as Grantor(s), to WFG National Title Company of Washington, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Civic Financial Services, LLC, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned by HMC Assets, LLC solely in its capacity as separate trustee of Civic Securitization Trust II to HMC Assets, LLC solely in its capacity as separate trustee of Civic Holdings III Trust under an assignment recorded on 05/29/2020 under auditor’s file No. 20200529001845. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage.
III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears:$686,395.58 (together with any subsequent interest, default interest, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due.
IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $624,000.00, together with interest as provided in the Note or other instrument secured from the 1st day of July, 2020, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on the 26th day of March, 2021. The
default(s) referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by the 15th day of March, 2021, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before the 15th day of March, 2021 (11 days before the sale) the default(s) as set forth in Paragraph III is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after the 15th day of March, 2021 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, an curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: NAME ADDRESS: Sound Housing LLC, a WA LLC C/O Tatiana Gershanovich, Member 170 S. Lincoln, Ste. 100 Spokane, WA 99201 Sound Housing LLC, a WA LLC C/O Tatiana Gershanovich, Member 800 5th Ave., Ste. 101-500 International, WA 98104 Sound Housing LLC, a WA LLC C/O Tatiana Gershanovich, Member 1619 N. 46th Street Seattle, WA 98103 by both first class and certified mail on 21st day of October, 2020, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, on the 21st day of October, 2020, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS
The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceed-
ings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenantoccupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. XI. NOTICE TO GUARANTORS OF COMMERCIAL LOANS The guarantor may be liable for a deficiency judgment to the extent the sale price obtained at the trustee’s sale is less than the debt secured by the deed of trust; the guarantor has the same rights to reinstate the debt (if applicable), cure the default, or repay the debt as is given to the grantor in order to avoid the trustee’s sale; the guarantor will have no right to redeem the property after trustee’s sale. Subject to such longer periods as are provided in the Washington deed of trust act, chapter 61.24 RCW, any action brought to enforce a guaranty must be commenced within one year after the trustee’s sale, or the last trustee’s sale under any deed of trust granted to secure the same debt. In any action for a deficiency, the guarantor will have the right to establish the fair value of the property as of the date of the trustee’s sale, less prior liens and encumbrances, and to limit its liability for a deficiency to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale price paid at the trustee’s sale, plus interest and costs. DATED: 12/21/2020 Commercial Default Services of Washington, LLC 612 S. Lucile St, Ste 300 Seattle, WA 98108-2623 360-865-5770 Cheryl L. Mondragon, Assistant Secretary A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document, to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document. State of California County of Orange On 12/21/2020 before me, KIMBERLY A. ZUERLEIN-GUERIN, Notary Public, personally appeared Cheryl L. Mondragon, Assistant Secretary, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument. I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct. WITNESS my hand and official seal. Signature Kimberly A. ZuerleinGuerin (Seal) KIMBERLY A. ZUERLEINGUERIN Notary Public - California Orange County Commission # 2271914 My Comm. Expires Jan 15, 2023 NPP0372497 To: QUEEN ANNE & MAGNOLIA NEWS 02/24/2021, 03/17/2021
